Seattle Public Schools For the Teacher: The workshop uses a protocol aligning Backward Design with the National Standards to guide Seattle Integrated Certification Cohort (SILCC) teachers in developing curricular units. Teachers see how themes and Big Ide ...

Occidental College’s Putting the Standards Front and Center: An Infrastructure Project for Teacher Development provides program directors and lead instructors with multiple resources that can be used individually or collectively. The materials present con ...

With a 2014 STARTALK Infrastructure Building grant, Concordia Language Villages created ten instructional modules in both Russian and Chinese. Using themed cultural topics, each module is comprised of 3 lesson plans providing three or more hours of lesson ...

The Professional Learning Module for Instructional Leads is a hybrid set of resources, activities and structured procedures that can be used to enhance, extend, and build the capacity of STARTALK Instructional Leads prior to conducting teacher professiona ...

May 8–9, 2016 • Denver, CO The contents of these presentations are the intellectual property of the respective authors. By reposting it here, the NFLC is neither claiming ownership of the content nor responsibility for the ideas expressed therein. Downlo ...

To provide further support to STARTALK programs, STARTALK Central collaborated with the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) Project to develop a framework called the STARTALK TELL Alignment, or STELLA for short. Click the link below to acce ...

National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC) Haya! is short for Hayya Nudarris Ma'ayeer Ta'allum Al-'Arabiyya, or Standards-based Arabic Teaching. The project is funded by STARTALK and implemented by the National Capital Language Resou ...

Northern Virginia Community College/NOVASTARTALK NOVASTARTALK Online is a web-based resource designed to help teachers use technology tools and 21st century language pedagogy in the official STARTALK languages. With this resource, instructors of less-comm ...

Designed to support professional learning in STARTALK teacher development programs, professional development in STARTALK student programs, as well as independently by any language teacher, these resources address instructional topics found in STELLA modul ...

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About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE